Essays 481 - 510
In six pages critical cinematic theory is applied to director John Boorman's film released in 1972 and discusses how theme is depi...
the experience had a profound effect on him. At the theater, Bergman could immerse himself in the characters and the action and f...
In seven pages this paper examines how films are critically reviewed and analyzed with such films as The Crying Game, GoodFellas, ...
the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...
Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...
sole survivor out of the eight people who lived for three years in the lofts tiny space. The film flashes back to Otto explaining ...
lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...
religion is treated in Hollywood film; what forces of religion are considered "box office" (i.e., profitable); and what values do...
In three pages cinema is defined as 'writing in images' with differences between visual and written texts considered along with fi...
the traitorous guide getting ready to shoot him in the back. The camera shifts to Indys hand, which is holding a whip, as he swift...
Abel. Smeagol is analogous to Cain; he is his brothers murderer, and the audience is aware that the Ring is both powerful and evil...
that wracks him with confusion (Nassal, 2002). "I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Li...
The writer explores the plot, characters, setting and other elements of the 1942 classic film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart...
This paper considers how the Vietnam War was depicted in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket and the 1988 film Good Morning, Vietnam i...
In seven pages historical comparisons are made between the ways in which education is depicted in such films as Stand and Deliver,...
This paper explores the career of comic film maker, Charles Chaplin. The author focuses mostly on his early, silent films, such a...
truth and the search for meaning in life. It was no longer a time for people to sleep and hide in their supposedly perfect illusor...
of human existence and the ways in which all human beings relate to stress, desire, and feelings of social and personal alienation...
understand the main thrust of the film without subtitles, as it follows Amelie from childhood to adulthood, showing the main event...
public, which is basically whats going on here; that is widely accepted and understood. If it were not a cultural norm for people ...
girl, Lucy, dies because one of the pellets broke inside her and caused an overdose. She is simply cut open and tossed aside by th...
are the various traumatic events Christ endures from the Garden of Gethsemane until the Crucifixion. They are broken down into fo...
he runs the docks. The same thing applies in the other cases. The priest, Father Barry (Karl Malden) wants to save the souls of ...
directed by David Van Taylor and R.J. Cutler) is a documentary that follows the 1994 senate race between incumbent Senator Charles...
in a film that only a percentage of moviegoers even remember. This represents the crapshoot movie studios were forced to endure w...
and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...
women will play in the film (The Graduate). Throughout the film, Nichols uses images, including an extensive series of montages, t...
that it has always been a colony of sorts. Its independence is illusive and while things have changed since 1997, it seems as if H...
This film review pertains to "The Martian" (2015). lThe writer describes the film and argues that it is scientifically accurate. F...
This essay pertains to Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who are directed numerous films over the past 4 decades. Their documentaries...